Between the two dream coasts, we're just called flyover country... If you aren't known as an amorphous Eastern Seaboard writer, you're dismissed as a regional author.
We are all naturally xenophobic.
I think the trouble with artists or chefs who whine about criticism is that if you love the good reviews, you have to at least read the bad ones.
Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.
Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.
